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As you’ll see later, every USB flash drive we’ve featured has USB 3.0 compatibility. Why so is pretty obvious - USB 3.0 offers nearly 10 times the data transfer speed that USB 2.0 can achieve, and since we’re not in 1995 where most files you put on portable storage rarely break the megabyte barrier, we need faster speeds to accomodate bigger files. It’s a biggie for mobile gamers and streamers; not so much for paper pushers.
"The nede for speed is very much real, and we need it now in the most portable way possible."
As you’ll see later, every USB flash drive we’ve featured has USB 3.0 compatibility. Why so is pretty obvious - USB 3.0 offers nearly 10 times the data transfer speed that USB 2.0 can achieve, and since we’re not in 1995 where most files you put on portable storage rarely break the megabyte barrier, we need faster speeds to accomodate bigger files. It’s a biggie for mobile gamers and streamers; not so much for paper pushers.
So how does our current devices measure up? We’ll present the Top 3 for the best storage options you can have - our review may seem a little arbitrary, but we’ll explain the specs we highlighted.
We rated the products in terms of their efficiency - price per gigabyte. We want to assist you in making not only the right filler for your needs - we want you to get it at the best price possible. Here are our top candidates:
1. SanDisk Extreme 3.0 USB Flash Drive
- lowest price per GB
- trumps the rest in terms of write speed
2. Transcend JetFlash 780
- second best in terms of write speed
- second best in terms of price per gigabyte
3. Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0
- offers capacities up to 256GB; the biggest of the three
- aesthetically awesome